Jesus question is an apt one: ``Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?'' Witness literature has on occasion called them ``the 1900-year-old slave," an adjective which suggests an unbroken succession going back to the apostles. If this is true, then who passed the torch to Pastor Russell? If this is so, when why did the truth need to be ``revived" (Acts 3:21) as they claim?
Then too, if it's as they say, the body of anointed Christians on earth at any given time comprises the Faithful and Discreet Slave, then to what extent do the non-Bethelite, non-GB members of the group participate in the revelation of ``new truth?'' It's been repeatedly shown that any of these so-called ``anointed'' who have the temerity to write in suggestions on doctrine are told, politely at first, but with increasing severity if they persist, to butt out.
As I mentioned in previous threads, one of the first and biggest illusions that I was disabused of was that governance of the organization was a collaborative effort of certain select anointed. At least for the time I ws thre (mid-sixties), the reality was that Knorr ran the place and Freddie wrote the books. Period, paragraph.
The picture portrayed of a Governing Body charged with administering the Lord's earthly interests from the First Century to the present is one of the most pervasive myths of JW culture. There's not a shred of empirical evidence to support it; they're self-appointed.